We are proud to announce the winners of the 2019 Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship.

Alf Mabrook to our scholarship winners, listed below!

Their submissions, along with other Palestinian writers and artists ages 18-25, will be published in the upcoming Ghassan Kanafani Anthology, which you can order online soon!

1ST PLACE

Lina Mohammed Abojaradeh is a Palestinian Jordanian who graduated top 10 on her Architecture class, but she identifies as a pioneer of artivism- activism through art. Founder of social initiative Archismile, she is using art as a teaching methodology to empower youth in Jordan, having impacted over 7000 youth. She is alumni of multiple international fellowships for civic leaders, and winner of international awards in filmmaking, writing and art. Her art raises awareness on the most important issues including colonialism, gender, religious and racial inequality. Her passion for art stems from her love for the homeland she never had a chance to see, Palestine, and she believes in the importance of art in telling the Palestinian story on a global level. Using poetry, art and video, she tries to find the most innovative way to raise awareness about the Palestinian cause. She has exhibited and spoken about her work in Ireland, Argentina, Turkey, US, Tunisia, and Egypt.

Piece: “Handala’s Dream”

2nd place

Noura Farouk is a Palestinian-Lebanese writer and educator who hails from Acre & Haifa. Her family was exiled in 1948, and since has been living in Lebanon, where she also has roots. Her degree focuses on the intersections of identity, psychology, neural development and politics, with a focus on practical application through art therapy and engagement with personal and collective oral history. Her work combines an effort to display history as is with an attempt to create a collective representation of the times we currently live in, using experiences, image collaging, interviews, songs, newspaper headlines, personal photos, advice, and even the trauma that serves as both a starting point of education and a healing practice. She hopes to be able to create a literary home and lasting legacy for that which has passed, as well as the current reality of our struggle towards freedom. As well as to uplift, and encourage the reader to go on a journey of curiosity and self-exploration, to take what they want away from that, to take it as proof, inspiration, or a detective clue book as they piece their own story together. She has ran multiple SJP's, and hopes to reconnect to the land she has never been allowed to see through writing, to show the historical patterns of oppression and alternatively liberation, to connect the diaspora back to the Arab youth throughout the levant, and to rehumanize the narrative around the Palestinians who remain in a dire situation in Lebanon since 1948.

Piece: “The Return”

3rd place

Our third place winner (anonymous) is a graduate student at Oxford University. He writes for his teta.

Pieces Collection of Three Poems: “Za’atar after Natalie Scenters-Zapico”; “Haifa II”; “Haolgen Sky”